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Friday, April 17, 2026
MABA – Make Alexandria a Bartender Again.
Miss Occasional-Cortex certainly earned her sobriquet of “3B” this week – the Bug-Eyed Brainless Bolshevik – for the childish lunacy of her “Green New Deal” (the link is to the actual bill she submitted to Congress yesterday 2/07). As one wag observed: “It looks like something a four year-old in Soviet Russia dreamt up.”
Yet with this, you couldn’t have clearer proof that Global Warming – defined in the bill’s first sentence as “human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century” – is the Left’s substitution of Marxism as the new ideological rationale for full fascist government control over everyone’s life.
That in fact is why 3B’s crusade is a cause for celebration. So is the whole week.
There are no adequate words. All there is, is to join the chorus of acclamation that President Trump last night (2/05) delivered to Congress and America the greatest State of the Union address ever in our history.
There are simply too many quotes and moments to mention here. Below you can watch it entire – whether you watched it last night or not, it will blow you away – but first some observations and the best memes.
The domination of the President over the Democrats in the House Chamber was overwhelming. They were headlighted-deer stunned to find they were attending a Trump Rally – and joining in, chanting USA! USA! USA!
There were moments when you cried, when you laughed, when you cheered and shouted with joy – and those when you just shook your head in smiling amazement, as when the entire US Congress, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Presidential Cabinet, and Supreme Court Justices joined in singing “Happy Birthday” to Holocaust survivor Judah Samet, celebrating his 81st birthday after surviving a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue last October.
So here’s a collection of quotes and memes to enjoy.
©2019 Jack Wheeler
Last week in our exploration of the highest summits of the Himalayas, we ended our Route to Everest at the Red Hat Tibetan Tengboche monastery.
Having now been to world’s 6th, 4th, and highest mountain of all – Cho Oyo, Lhotse, and Everest -- this week we continue on to the giants of Makalu – the world’s 5th at 8,485m/27,838ft – and Kanchenjunga – 3rd highest on earth at 8,585m/28,168ft.
Get ready for a photographic extravaganza – many of these pics might take your breath away. Like the one above – the entire ridge line you see is over 8,000 meters, over 26,000 feet. I took it in one of our ultra-high altitude helicopters at 23,000 feet.
The nadir of the amoral egotism of what might broadly be called “Me-ism” has been reached by the avant garde of the Democrat Party in their race to the bottom of the electoral depths.
The renunciation of any notions of sacrifice, patriotic pride, the spirituality of life, or the recognition of anything except the smash-and-grab politics of endless atomized grievances and instant gratification of convenience, has reached what must, in its way, be the end of its history.
As the party of infanticide and open borders, they are indulging in a frenzy of primal extremism from which they will not recover.
There were laughter, tears, raucous cheers and awkward silences. But more than anything else, it was a punch in the gut that President Trump delivered Tuesday night.
Time after time, on issue after issue, he laid down a marker about the remaining two years of his term — and the outlines of his re-election campaign.
Speeches that are too long — as this one was — often smother their key points in windy verbiage. But there was no mistaking Trump’s meaning or his intent to seek a second term on the platform of a strong economy, strong defense and secure borders.
The state of the union is frighteningly divided and hostile, but the state of the president’s aim is sound. For all the talk of chaos and churn in his administration, Donald Trump knows what he’s about. As he always has, he’s playing to win.
“Communism, excuse me, I mean Socialism, will work this time. Trust me. I’m a bartender.”
How cold is it? It’s so cold that, the New York Post joked about “AOC “(Alexandria Occasional-Cortex) on its cover yesterday (1/31):
It’s so cold that this morning’s headline (2/01) is for real: Lake Michigan Has Completely Frozen Over.
Nonetheless, Occasional-Cortex and her Fascicrat ilk went bananas in rage (is there any other emotion they feel?) when POTUS made fun of their religion:
Yet their demented Warmist fanaticism is merely one path of many in their descent into madness this week, in which Democrats have become a party of Psychotic Fascism. No longer a political party but a criminally evil gang bereft of any morality, just thuggish hate and lust for fascist power.
The question of the moment then becomes: What will the President do about this in his State of the Union Address four days from now this Tuesday (2/05)?
Everyone has heard of the Himalayas and Mount Everest in particular. Yet most everyone has only a vague understanding of the most famous and highest mountain range on earth, and where the great mountains among them are in relation to each other.
Over the next three weeks, your understanding will become clear, no longer vague. This week, we’ll explore the route to Everest.
The Himalayas form a 1,500 mile-long arc from Namche Barwa in Chinese Tibet in the east to Nanga Parbat in Pakistan in the west. But it is in the center of the arc, in Nepal that the great Himalayan giants are found, including Mount Everest.
Four of the highest – Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu – on the border with Chinese Tibet. Thus, you can trek to or climb them from either the Nepali (south) or Tibetan (north) side.
This week, we’ll explore the route to Everest and its sister peak of Lhotse via Cho Oyu in Nepal. From Cho Oyu flows the largest glacier in the Nepali Himalayas, the giant Ngozumpa Glacier which has a series of beautiful lakes, the Gokyo Lakes, alongside. That’s what you see in the photo above.
Looking to your right, you see the fifth Gokyo Lake and the source of the Ngozumpa, the 6th highest mountain on earth at 8,201 meters, Cho Oyu, the Turquoise Goddess in Tibetan. Up close, the sight is overwhelming.
Not that President Trump will get any credit.
The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest, and, of course, fake news — from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the smears of the Covington Catholic High School students.
But aside from the weekly hysterias, the world has dramatically changed since 2016 in ways we scarcely have appreciated.
The idea that China systematically rigged trade laws and engaged in technological espionage to run up huge deficits is no longer a Trump, or even a partisan, issue.
The world did not fall apart after the U.S. pulled out of the flawed Iran nuclear deal. Most yawned when the U.S. left the symbolic but empty Paris Climate Accord. Ditto when the U.S. moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In retrospect, most Americans accept that such once-controversial decisions were not ever all that controversial.
It’s a quandary to which we can all relate. One of her lines of dialogue, however, has an especially timely meaning: “The Devil has the people by the throat.”
In the context of the film, the Devil is Hitler and the Nazis; the Brandels were lucky to escape with their lives. Today, the Devil is much closer to home – right here in America, wearing a pink pussy hat on his horns.
Fascism and Communism—those tragic sisters from the 1900s that led to the greatest human suffering, poverty, and mass starvation in human history—should barely be remembered today.
Instead, they are ascendant in the Democrat Party. Cultural Marxism and fascist socialism are the new Democrat chic. The entire country is in an uproar. Everyone feels a sense of doom and gloom.
Conservative pundits have latched onto the fun words “hysteria” and “Trump derangement syndrome.” These words, though cute, mask the seriousness of what is actually happening. The Democrat Party has become the enemy of America and all it stands for. It’s time to get real about this.
After news broke of Robert Mueller’s pre-dawn raid on Roger Stone's home Friday morning in Florida by twenty-nine heavily-armed agents in nineteen vehicles, lights flashing, CNN serendipitously on hand to film the raid, millions of us realized once and for all that we are no longer living in the America we knew and loved.
Mueller was appointed to conceal and obliterate the volumes of evidence of crimes committed by Hillary Clinton; her campaign; and a group of higher-ups in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA, all of whom were involved in a scheme to prevent Trump from being elected.
Mueller’s pure Gestapo tactics make it catastrophically clear that America is no longer a constitutional republic, a nation of laws and justice. An unelected, tangential officer of the DOJ has for two years abused his position of power to destroy many lives in the cruelest of ways with impunity.
No one is stopping him and his band of legal bullies. Including the President of the United States.
Look at his eyes. There is no fear in his eyes. That’s the reason for the pathological hate. Nick Sandmann is our Rosa Parks.
Just as she became an icon of resistance to the anti-black racism of the Democrat Jim Crow South in the 1950s, The Sandmann is now our icon of resistance to the anti-white racism of the Fascist Democrat Party and the Fascist Media today.
Look at his fearless eyes. Look at his pleasant smile. It’s not a “smirk” – it’s an expression of a friendly kid, who’s confidant in himself. He’s saying silently, “It’s okay to be white, I have no apologies for who I am, and I refuse to sit in the back of your anti-white racist bus.”
This morning (1/25) we published Nick Sandmann’s statement, What Happened at the Lincoln Memorial. Obviously a must-read.
On Wednesday (1/23), young Nick was interviewed by Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today show. She started right out asking Nick to apologize and admit the episode was his fault. He refused, saying “I had every right to stand there,” and “I cannot say I’m sorry.”
This 16 year-old boy has more spine than the majority of Republicans in Congress put together. Here’s the lesson Nick Sandmann has to teach all of us who love America against those who hate us and it:
